Raphael: "Eurovision is now an invention, each year more exaggerated"

• SARA POLO

  @SaraPolo

  Madrid

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Updated Monday, November 21, 2022-02:29

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He hates being late, but the rain doesn't let up.

The traffic jam, either.

"I haven't done anything, huh?" She apologizes.

Look at the photos on the wall: on the right,

and

;

Above,

.

And finally, him, of course.

"I'm looking at the companies... I like them."

Raphael has just released

.

"She's very bright, with a throbbing sense of humor, very nice people, a very good musician and very modest, a little bit of a kook...she has all the qualities."

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A worthy successor, one day? No, no... There is no reason to choose one.

We have a lot of things to say and do in music, separately and together too.

How does someone who has been on stage for 60 years view modern artists? Well, there is everything.

Some I see very well and others, underdone or too old.

And there are many that I don't care about at all because it's not my chord... We're not going to listen to him in a duet with Rosalía, or with C. Tangana.

With someone who has nothing to do with you. Man, if it has nothing to do, why bother?

There always has to be something, at least the desire to do things. They have a desire... Yes, but there are people who have a poorly concealed desire, or are passing through life with a disgusted face.

Then inside they are looking forward to it, but the

on duty has told them: "You make a face that you don't care about everything."

Last year the legendary Benidorm Festival was revived.

Did you see it? I saw it, I saw it.

I saw the one that won and someone else. Chanel or Rigoberta Bandini? Well, look, each one had their own.

It is that when the forces collide nothing is clear.

Neither Benidorm nor Eurovision have anything to do with what they were.

Neither better nor worse, it is something else.

Eurovision was the song festival, what was judged was that.

And not now.

Now it's what suit he's wearing, how many lights he has... That's something else, that's called production.

But the voice

, even if it's

, that is no longer carried.

Well, that's where you have to start. What does Eurovision say about the health of the music industry? It's better, undoubtedly, because it no longer compares with the usual classic Eurovision.

Now it is an invention, and every year it is more exaggeratedly invented.

Until Madonna goes and she falls. The passage of time is very present in 'Victoria'.

Isn't she thinking of retiring? No, no, no... Certainly, one day I will have to.

One day I will wake up with a crooked foot and say: up to here.

Do not count on me if it is not to play cards.

But going on a farewell tour, as sad as that is, crying all day from city to city... No, no, don't count on me.

One day I will wake up with a crooked foot and say: up to here.

But a farewell tour... Not that, don't count on me

You have to know how to stop. Yes, yes, yes.

You have to know how to throw yourself and suddenly: shhhhhh, put the brake on the scooter.

What happened?

Any.

That we had to stop. She sings: «I am one of so many people».

Have you ever feared that the character would eat the person? No, because I am very balanced and I take the immense displays of affection that the public is kind enough to grant me as if I had won the lottery.

So, I'm always below people.

I look at them hallucinating. Even today? Today is more difficult.

Every day is more difficult.

It's like when they give you a prize.

It is so difficult for them to reward you when they have already given you everything... They tell me, but what are we going to give you?

Well something... Let it be noticed that I'm still there!She has said that the artist should go with his work.

Would you unfollow an artist if you disappointed him in the personal sphere? I don't know what my reaction would be,

but you have to understand that it is very strong.

If you admire a person not because of how he sings, but because of how he is, and he comes out to you through the hills of Úbeda, you want to say to him: [whispers] shut up.

Let people dream on and shut up.

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